Avalara's early talent strategy is to build talent pipelines through Internships and early career programs to meet Avalara's growing talent needs.

As part of the Leadership & Org Development team, you will drive early talent programming across the company.

You will work with People Partners, Talent Acquisition, Business Leaders, and functional training teams to align early talent strategy and programming globally. This role is located onsite in our Pune office. #LI-Onsite

You will Report to Senior Director

This is an Individual contributor role.

• You will manage Avalara's early-in-career framework, including internships, structure career progression, and functional programs.
• You will Lead internship program that converts students into full-time hires upon graduation.
• You will partner with finance, business leaders, and Talent Acquisition to define and validate early career hiring needs and ensure agreement on workforce planning.
• You will collaborate with campus recruiting to ensure the development of a campus strategy and that hiring objectives are met.
• You will Partner with the campus recruiter to design and execute outreach and engagement strategies to attract high-quality early career talent. Collaborate on end-to-end internship programming, including manager training, program logistics, learning experiences, and intern performance assessments.
• You will Provide leadership across Avalara's ACE (early talent) development programs for multiple business areas sharing best practices and ensuring alignment across programs.
• You will Monitor and evaluate the success and progress of Internship and ACE programs, providing regular updates to leadership on measure and outcomes.
• You will work with HR People Partners and Talent Acquisition teams to ensure alignment with talent acquisition and development needs companywide.
• Collaborate with Talent Management (TM) to integrate early career talent into long-term development strategies, ensuring retention and growth.
• Ability to work as part of a growing team and with a hands-on, and approach.

• The ideal candidate will have a bachelor's degree or at least 8 years of experience in HR Business Partnership, Early Career Development, and/or HR Program Management
• Collaborative and able to work cross-functionally with global teams
• Accomplished communicator with experience interacting at all levels
• Project management skills, communicate early when deliverables or deadlines may be missed

Total Rewards

In addition to a great compensation package, paid time off, and paid parental leave, many Avalara employees are eligible for bonuses.

Health & Wellness
Benefits vary by location but generally include private medical, life, and disability insurance.

Inclusive culture and diversity
Avalara strongly supports diversity, equity, and inclusion, and is committed to integrating them into our business practices and our organizational culture. We also have a total of 8 employee-run resource groups, each with senior leadership and exec sponsorship.

Learn more about our benefits by region here: Avalara North America

We’re Avalara. We’re defining the relationship between tax and tech.

We’ve already built an industry-leading cloud compliance platform, processing nearly 40 billion customer API calls and over 5 million tax returns a year, and this year we became a billion-dollar business. Our growth is real, and we’re not slowing down until we’ve achieved our mission - to be part of every transaction in the world.

We’re bright, innovative, and disruptive, like the orange we love to wear. It captures our quirky spirit and optimistic mindset. It shows off the culture we’ve designed, that empowers our people to win. Ownership and achievement go hand in hand here. We instill passion in our people through the trust we place in them.

We’ve been different from day one. Join us, and your career will be too.

We’re An Equal Opportunity Employer

Supporting diversity and inclusion is a cornerstone of our company — we don’t want people to fit into our culture, but to enrich it. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, age, gender, national orientation, disability, sexual orientation, US Veteran status, or any other factor protected by law. If you require any reasonable adjustments during the recruitment process, please let us know.